Funeral for Sri Lanka
Today I attended the funeral of Lasantha Wickremetunge, the Chief Editor of the Sunday Leader who was brutally assassinated on Thursday. I didn't know Lasantha. I didn't even like his style of journalism. But I admired his courage. I didn't go to Kanatte to just mourn him but also to mourn the death of the Sri Lanka I knew and loved. The Sunday Leader of January 11 carried this editorial, written by Lasantha in anticipation of his assassination. It is worth reproducing in full but you can also access it on http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20090111/editorial-.htm Editorial -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And Then They Came For Me No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism. In the course of the past few years, the independent media have increasingly come under attack. Electronic and print-media institutions have been burnt, bombed